I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.

I wanted to give people an experience. I wanted them to get their money's worth.

I want to represent the street, not in a negative sense, but in the sense that when I was growing up, that's what I grew up on.

If you don't have customers to sell to, you can't commit to anything with textile factories or manufacturing factories because you don't know if you'll be able to sell the quantities they're asking you to fill.

I didn't go to school for fashion, I didn't have anybody to teach me anything about fashion - that's all I knew how to do, graphic design.

I was working a corporate job for years and it always felt restrictive, it felt like I was doing something I wasn't supposed to be doing.

The thing is you can be a great designer but you can also be lazy or not understand the other person's preferences or be more concerned about being a star than being good at what you do.